(1) Ward election. - (a) The amount of the rateable value of business premises for the purposes of the business premises qualification under section 8.
(2) Proceedings of Corporation and Committees and conduct of business-
(a) the time and place of meetings of the Corporation, committees and sub-committees;
(b) the manner in which notice of such meetings, shall be given;
(c) the quorum necessary for the transaction of business at such meetings;
(d) the management and adjournment of such meetings, and the regulation or orderly conduct of business thereat, including the withdrawal or suspension of members guilty of disorderly conduct;
(e) the submission, asking and answering of questions at meetings of the Corporation;
(f) the constitution of Special Committees;
(g) the keeping of minutes and the submission of reports of meetings of the Corporation, committees and sub-committees;
(h) the delegation of the powers of the Standing Committee to subcommittees;
(i) the payment of conveyance charges to the Chairman and members of the Transport Committee for attendance at meetings thereof;
(j) any other matter relating to the proceedings of the Corporation, a Committee or a sub-committee, the holding and regulation of meetings, the conduct of debate, the inspection of minute-books and the supply of copies of minutes to councillors or other persons on payment of fees or otherwise.
(3) Municipal Officers and Servants-
(a) The qualifications necessary for and the method of appointment to posts the power of appointment to which vests in the Corporation;
(b) the mode of appointment to other posts;
(c) the powers and duties of the Municipal Chief Auditor and his staff;
(d) the determination of the services under the municipality to be treated as essential services for the purposes of Chapter V.
(4) Contracts-
(a) The manner in which contracts may be executed;
(b) the security to be demanded for the due performance of contracts;
(c) the calling, examination and acceptance of tenders;
(d) the procedure to be followed in disposing of the property of the Corporation.
(5) Special Funds-
(6) Budget Estimates-
(a) The classification of budget estimates of expenditure according to budget heads;
(b) the manner of making reductions in or transfers from one budget head to another or within a budget head.
(7) Municipal taxes-
(a) The assessment and recovery of municipal taxes;
(b) the conditions on which refunds of municipal taxes shall be allowed;
(c) in respect of a tax leviable under sub-section (2) of section 127, the matters referred to in sub-section (1) of section 149.
(8) Drainage-
(a) The construction, maintenance, improvement, alteration and discontinuance of drains;
(b) the conditions and restrictions to be observed with reference to drains;
(c) the conditions for connections with municipal drains;
(d) the conditions on which occupiers of trade-premises may discharge any trade effluent into municipal drains;
(e) the conditions to be observed in erecting or affixing ventilation shafts or pipes under section 175;
(f) the manner in which samples of trade-effluent shall be analysed;
(g) the construction, position and maintenance of water-closets, privies, urinals, bathing places or washing places.
(9) Water Supply - The terms and conditions of the supply of water to buildings or other premises.
(10) Streets-
(a) The information and documents to be furnished in connection with the lay-out of lands for buildings and private streets;
(b) the definition of sky-signs;
(c) the naming or numbering of streets and public places and the numbering of [premises] .
(11) Regulation of buildings-
(a) The manner in which further information and documents in regard to the erection of, or additions to, alterations in, or repairs of, buildings shall be supplied;
(b) the conditions to be observed in commencing, carrying out, and completing building work and in occupying buildings on completion of works;
(c) the restrictions under which alterations may be made in the use of buildings;
(d) the inspection of newly constructed buildings;
(e) the conditions on which loans may be granted out of the Municipal Fund for building and the form of application for such loans.
(12) Fire Brigade - The powers exercisable by the Chief or other officer of the municipal fire brigade on the occasion of a fire.
(13) Sanitary provisions-
(a) The furnishing of information regarding the number of occupants in buildings;
(b) the removal and disposal of filth, rubbish and polluted and excrementitious matter from premises;
(c) the maintenance of premises in a sanitary conditions;
(d) the prevention of nuisances, including the prohibition and regulation of wells;
(e) the removal, trimming and cutting of trees and hedges;
(f) the regulation of keeping of animals in the City;
(g) the regulation of public bathing and the washing of clothes;
(h) the information to be furnished by persons applying for permission to establish, remove, or re-open a factory, workshop, work-place or bakery governed by section 313;
(i) the articles which may not be kept and the trades and operations which may not be carried on in or upon any premises without a licence under section 376;
(j) the inspection of premises used or suspected of being used as a factory, workshop, work-place or bakery or for any licenseable trade or occupation or for the storage of any licensable article;
(k) the prevention and regulation of the discharge of smoke, steam, fumes and noxious vapours;
(l) the prohibition and regulation of the use of whistles, trumpets and noise-producing instruments operated by any mechanical means; (m) measures for the prevention of the spread of dangerous diseases,
(14) Markets. - The regulation of sales within or outside municipal or private markets.
(15) Fares and charges levied by Transport Undertaking - The exhibition of notices of fares and charges in vehicles used for the conveyance of passengers.
(16) Vital statistics - The supply of forms of certificate regarding the cause of death to medical practitioners.
(17) General - Any matter which is or may be prescribed to be provided for by rules.
Section 457 • The Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporations Act, 1949
457. Matters in respect of which rules may be made.
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The terms and conditions of the supply of water to buildings or other premises.\n(10) Streets-\n(a) The information and documents to be furnished in connection with the lay-out of lands for buildings and private streets;\n(b) the definition of sky-signs;\n(c) the naming or numbering of streets and public places and the numbering of [premises] .\n(11) Regulation of buildings-\n(a) The manner in which further information and documents in regard to the erection of, or additions to, alterations in, or repairs of, buildings shall be supplied;\n(b) the conditions to be observed in commencing, carrying out, and completing building work and in occupying buildings on completion of works;\n(c) the restrictions under which alterations may be made in the use of buildings;\n(d) the inspection of newly constructed buildings;\n(e) the conditions on which loans may be granted out of the Municipal Fund for building and the form of application for such loans.\n(12) Fire Brigade - The powers exercisable by the Chief or other officer of the municipal fire brigade on the occasion of a fire.\n(13) Sanitary provisions-\n(a) The furnishing of information regarding the number of occupants in buildings;\n(b) the removal and disposal of filth, rubbish and polluted and excrementitious matter from premises;\n(c) the maintenance of premises in a sanitary conditions;\n(d) the prevention of nuisances, including the prohibition and regulation of wells;\n(e) the removal, trimming and cutting of trees and hedges;\n(f) the regulation of keeping of animals in the City;\n(g) the regulation of public bathing and the washing of clothes;\n(h) the information to be furnished by persons applying for permission to establish, remove, or re-open a factory, workshop, work-place or bakery governed by section 313;\n(i) the articles which may not be kept and the trades and operations which may not be carried on in or upon any premises without a licence under section 376;\n(j) the inspection of premises used or suspected of being used as a factory, workshop, work-place or bakery or for any licenseable trade or occupation or for the storage of any licensable article;\n(k) the prevention and regulation of the discharge of smoke, steam, fumes and noxious vapours;\n(l) the prohibition and regulation of the use of whistles, trumpets and noise-producing instruments operated by any mechanical means; (m) measures for the prevention of the spread of dangerous diseases,\n(14) Markets. - The regulation of sales within or outside municipal or private markets.\n(15) Fares and charges levied by Transport Undertaking - The exhibition of notices of fares and charges in vehicles used for the conveyance of passengers.\n(16) Vital statistics - The supply of forms of certificate regarding the cause of death to medical practitioners.\n(17) General - Any matter which is or may be prescribed to be provided for by rules.",
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